Orbs

They're circular, they have no animations and they somehow want you dead.

Your goal is simple. Explore a dark dungeon as a generic RPG silent protagonist and fight off the Orbs - strange coloured creatures that relentlessly chase and attack you, with some colours being more vicious than others. But beating the King Orb is not the end. Manage your stamina, grind XP appropriately and defeat him again, as fast as possible!

Controls (1st choices for arrow keys; 2nd choices for WASD)

Move - Arrow Keys or WASD

Attack - E or O

Sprint - Q or P

Drink Potion - R or I

Toggle Fullscreen - F11

If you don't care at all about how I made the game and just want to play it, don't bother reading on (I won't be offended)

The theme of "2010s Flash Game" is pretty abstract, so it was pretty difficult to think of a game concept that met this well, so I thought it best to take inspiration from some of my favourite Flash games, specifically for the enemy designs. The random geometry from Run and World's Hardest Game helped to cement my enemies as shapes, and the Orbs came soon after that. The idea of different colours representing strength also comes from the Bloons TD series.

The Stretch goal of "Arcadey" is comparatively much easier to fit in, with the timer mechanic of the game. In the earlier days of the Game Jam (when my free time was more existent), I thought the player moved WAY too fast, but upon further testing, the fast pace of this game felt really good to play and that was what inevitably led me to making Orbs partially a speedrun game.

This is also the first ever game I made by myself, and the easy-to-use GameMaker Engine definitely helped with this. Although I wouldn't consider myself an artist (far from it), I did at least try with stuff like the sword swing animation, etc.

Royalty Free Stuff I "Borrowed"

- this epic tilemap https://pixel-poem.itch.io/dungeon-assetpuck
- this sword sound effect https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/sword-sound-260274/  
- this potion sound effect https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/085594-potion-35983/ 

everything else was me :p